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    "title": "Biological Data for Biological Baseline Studies of Mobile Bay: Benthic Fauna 1980-1981 (NCEI Accession 0116100)",
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        "BENTHIC COMMUNITIES",
        "BENTHIC SPECIES",
        "CRUSTACEANS",
        "INVERTEBRATE SPECIES",
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        "DOC\/NOAA\/NESDIS\/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS\/INVERTEBRATES",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS\/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > CRUSTACEANS",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC",
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        "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN",
        "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA",
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